בָּחַר

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

Genesis 6:2

• בָּחָֽרוּ׃bacharuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they chose

So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 13:11

• וַיִּבְחַר־vaiyivchar-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

He took 600 of the best chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

Exodus 14:7

• בָּח֔וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

Exodus 17:9

• בְּחַר־bechar-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: choose

So Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Exodus 18:25

• וַיִּבְחַ֨רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one He chooses, He will bring near to Himself.

Numbers 16:5

• יִבְחַר־yivchar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

and tomorrow you are to place fire and incense in them in the presence of the LORD. Then the man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. It is you sons of Levi who have taken too much upon yourselves!”

Numbers 16:7

• יִבְחַ֥רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”

Numbers 17:5

• אֶבְחַר־ʾevchar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will choose

Because He loved your fathers, He chose their descendants after them and brought you out of Egypt by His presence and great power,

Deuteronomy 4:37

• וַיִּבְחַ֥רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:6

• בָּחַ֣ר׀bacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Deuteronomy 7:7

• וַיִּבְחַ֣רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

Yet the LORD has set His affection on your fathers and loved them. And He has chosen you, their descendants after them, above all the peoples, even to this day.

Deuteronomy 10:15

• וַיִּבְחַ֞רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

Deuteronomy 12:5

• יִבְחַ֨רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 12:11

• יִבְחַר֩yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.

Deuteronomy 12:14

• יִבְחַ֤רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,

Deuteronomy 12:18

• יִבְחַ֜רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.

Deuteronomy 12:21

• יִבְחַ֜רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.

Deuteronomy 12:26

• יִבְחַ֥רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 14:2

• בָּחַ֣רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

And you are to eat a tenth of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks, in the presence of the LORD your God at the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name, so that you may learn to fear the LORD your God always.

Deuteronomy 14:23

• יִבְחַר֮yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

But if the distance is too great for you to carry that with which the LORD your God has blessed you, because the place where the LORD your God will choose to put His Name is too far away,

Deuteronomy 14:24

• יִבְחַר֙yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

then exchange it for money, take the money in your hand, and go to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 14:25

• יִבְחַ֛רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose.

Deuteronomy 15:20

• יִבְחַ֣רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

You are to offer to the LORD your God the Passover sacrifice from the herd or flock in the place the LORD will choose as a dwelling for His Name.

Deuteronomy 16:2

• יִבְחַ֣רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

You must only offer the Passover sacrifice at the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name. Do this in the evening as the sun sets, at the same time you departed from Egypt.

Deuteronomy 16:6

• יִבְחַ֨רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

And you shall roast it and eat it in the place the LORD your God will choose, and in the morning you shall return to your tents.

Deuteronomy 16:7

• יִבְחַ֛רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Deuteronomy 16:11

• יִבְחַר֙yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.

Deuteronomy 16:15

• יִבְחַ֣רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Deuteronomy 16:16

• יִבְחָ֔רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.

Deuteronomy 17:8

• יִבְחַ֛רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the LORD will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you,

Deuteronomy 17:10

• יִבְחַ֣רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

Deuteronomy 17:15

• יִבְחַ֛רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

For the LORD your God has chosen Levi and his sons out of all your tribes to stand and minister in His name for all time.

Deuteronomy 18:5

• בָּחַ֛רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

Deuteronomy 18:6

• יִבְחַ֥רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.

Deuteronomy 21:5

• בָּחַ֞רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

Deuteronomy 23:16

• יִבְחַ֛רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

Deuteronomy 26:2

• יִבְחַר֙yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

Deuteronomy 30:19

• וּבָֽחַרְתָּ֙uvachartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will choose

when all Israel comes before the LORD your God at the place He will choose, you are to read this law in the hearing of all Israel.

Deuteronomy 31:11

• יִבְחָ֑רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night

Joshua 8:3

• וַיִּבְחַ֣רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.

Joshua 9:27

• יִבְחָֽר׃ פyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

Joshua 24:15

• בַּחֲר֨וּbacharuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: choose

Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

Joshua 24:22

• בְּחַרְתֶּ֥םbechartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have chosen

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

Judges 5:8

• יִבְחַר֙yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it chose

Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”

Judges 10:14

• בְּחַרְתֶּ֖םbechartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have chosen

On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

Judges 20:15

• בָּחֽוּר׃bachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.

Judges 20:16

• בָּח֔וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

Judges 20:34

• בָּחוּר֙bachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.

1 Samuel 2:28

• וּבָחֹ֣רuvachorconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and I chose

When that day comes, you will beg for relief from the king you have chosen, but the LORD will not answer you on that day.”

1 Samuel 8:18

• בְּחַרְתֶּ֖םbechartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have chosen

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the LORD has chosen? There is no one like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

1 Samuel 10:24

• בָּֽחַר־bachar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Now here is the king you have chosen, the one you requested. Behold, the LORD has placed a king over you.

1 Samuel 12:13

• בְּחַרְתֶּ֖םbechartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have chosen

He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.

1 Samuel 13:2

• וַיִּבְחַר־vaiyivchar-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

Then Jesse called Abinadab and presented him to Samuel, who said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

1 Samuel 16:8

• בָחַ֥רvacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Next Jesse presented Shammah, but Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.”

1 Samuel 16:9

• בָחַ֥רvacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel told him, “The LORD has not chosen any of these.”

1 Samuel 16:10

• בָחַ֥רvacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

And David took his staff in his hand, selected five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag. And with his sling in hand, he approached the Philistine.

1 Samuel 17:40

• וַיִּבְחַר־vaiyivchar-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

Then Saul’s anger burned against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse and rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the disgrace of the mother who bore you?

1 Samuel 20:30

• בֹחֵ֤רvocherverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: choosing

So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel and went to look for David and his men in the region of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.

1 Samuel 24:2

• בָּח֖וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

So Saul, accompanied by three thousand chosen men of Israel, went down to the Wilderness of Ziph to search for David there.

1 Samuel 26:2

• בְּחוּרֵ֣יbechureiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: chosen of

David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

2 Samuel 6:1

• בָּח֥וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,

2 Samuel 6:21

• בָּֽחַר־bachar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chose

When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

2 Samuel 10:9

• וַיִּבְחַ֗רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose
• בְּחוּרֵ֣יbechureiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: chosen

The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”

2 Samuel 15:15

• יִבְחַ֛רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

“Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by the people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.

2 Samuel 16:18

• בָּחַ֧רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Furthermore, Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Let me choose twelve thousand men and set out tonight in pursuit of David.

2 Samuel 17:1

• אֶבְחֲרָ֣הʾevcharahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me choose

The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”

2 Samuel 19:38

• תִּבְחַ֥רtivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will choose

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

2 Samuel 24:12

• בְּחַר־bechar-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: choose

Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 3:8

• בָּחָ֑רְתָּbacharetaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have chosen

‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

1 Kings 8:16

• בָחַ֣רְתִּיvachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I chose
• וָאֶבְחַ֣רvaevcharHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I have chosen

When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the LORD in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

1 Kings 8:44

• בָּחַ֣רְתָּbachartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have chosen

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

1 Kings 8:48

• בָּחַ֔רְתָּbachartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have chosen

Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”

1 Kings 11:13

• בָּחָֽרְתִּי׃bacharetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

1 Kings 11:32

• בָּחַ֣רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.

1 Kings 11:34

• בָּחַ֣רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I chose

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

1 Kings 11:36

• בָּחַ֣רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

And when Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the whole house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against the house of Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

1 Kings 12:21

• בָּח֖וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

1 Kings 14:21

• בָּחַ֨רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had chosen

Get two bulls for us. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. And I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.

1 Kings 18:23

• וְיִבְחֲר֣וּveyivcharuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and let them choose

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Since you are so numerous, choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first. Then call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.”

1 Kings 18:25

• בַּחֲר֨וּbacharuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: choose

Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

2 Kings 21:7

• בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙bachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”

2 Kings 23:27

• בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙bachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I chose

Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”

1 Chronicles 15:2

• בָּחַ֣רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had chosen

When Joab saw the battle lines before him and behind him, he selected some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans.

1 Chronicles 19:10

• וַיִּבְחַ֗רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose
• בָּחוּר֙bachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

“Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’”

1 Chronicles 21:10

• בְּחַר־bechar-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: choose

Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He chose my father’s household, and from my father’s sons He was pleased to make me king over all Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:4

• וַיִּבְחַ֡רvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose
• בָּחַ֣רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chose

And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

1 Chronicles 28:5

• וַיִּבְחַר֙vaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has chosen

And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.

1 Chronicles 28:6

• בָחַ֨רְתִּיvachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

Consider now that the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong and do it.”

1 Chronicles 28:10

• בָּ֧חַרbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Then King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

1 Chronicles 29:1

• בָּֽחַר־bachar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:5

• בָחַ֣רְתִּֽיvachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen
• בָחַ֣רְתִּֽיvachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 6:6

• וָאֶבְחַר֙vaevcharHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I have chosen
• וָאֶבְחַ֣רvaevcharHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I have chosen

When Your people go to war against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You in the direction of the city You have chosen and the house I have built for Your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:34

• בָּחַ֣רְתָּbachartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have chosen

and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name,

2 Chronicles 6:38

• בָּחַ֔רְתָּbachartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have chosen

the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

2 Chronicles 7:12

• וּבָחַ֜רְתִּיuvachartiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I have chosen

For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

2 Chronicles 7:16

• בָּחַ֤רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

2 Chronicles 11:1

• בָּח֖וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.

2 Chronicles 12:13

• בָּחַ֨רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had chosen

Abijah went into battle with an army of 400,000 chosen men, while Jeroboam drew up in formation against him with 800,000 chosen and mighty men of valor.

2 Chronicles 13:3

• בָּח֑וּר סbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen
• בָּח֖וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

2 Chronicles 13:17

• בָּחֽוּר׃bachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.

2 Chronicles 25:5

• בָּחוּר֙bachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, to minister before Him, and to burn incense.”

2 Chronicles 29:11

• בָּחַ֣רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

2 Chronicles 33:7

• בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙bachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’

Nehemiah 1:9

• בָּחַ֔רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

Nehemiah 9:7

• בָּחַ֙רְתָּ֙bachartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you chose

so that I would prefer strangling and death over my life in this body.

Job 7:15

• וַתִּבְחַ֣רvativcharHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it chose

How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?

Job 9:14

• אֶבְחֲרָ֖הʾevcharahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will choose

For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

Job 15:5

• וְ֝תִבְחַ֗רvetivcharHC/Vqu2mstagged: so you may choose

I chose their course and presided as chief. So I dwelt as a king among his troops, as a comforter of the mourners.

Job 29:25

• אֶֽבֲחַ֣רʾevacharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I chose

Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

Job 34:4

• נִבְחֲרָה־nivcharah-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us choose

Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

Job 34:33

• תִבְחַ֣רtivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will choose

Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.

Job 36:21

• בָּחַ֥רְתָּbachartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have chosen

Who is the man who fears the LORD? He will instruct him in the path chosen for him.

Psalms 25:12

• יִבְחָֽר׃yivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will choose

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

Psalms 33:12

• בָּחַ֖רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

He chooses our inheritance for us, the pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah

Psalms 47:4

• יִבְחַר־yivchar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chooses

Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

Psalms 65:4

• תִּֽבְחַ֣רtivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: [is one whom] you choose

He rejected the tent of Joseph and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

Psalms 78:67

• בָחָֽר׃vacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chose

But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.

Psalms 78:68

• וַ֭יִּבְחַרvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:70

• וַ֭יִּבְחַרvaiyivcharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he chose

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Psalms 84:10

• בָּחַ֗רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.

Psalms 89:19

• בָח֣וּרvachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: a chosen

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

Psalms 105:26

• בָּֽחַר־bachar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had chosen

I have chosen the way of truth; I have set Your ordinances before me.

Psalms 119:30

• בָחָ֑רְתִּיvacharetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.

Psalms 119:173

• בָחָֽרְתִּי׃vacharetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

Psalms 132:13

• בָחַ֣רvacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

For the LORD has chosen Jacob as His own, Israel as His treasured possession.

Psalms 135:4

• בָּחַ֣רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has chosen

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

Proverbs 1:29

• בָחָֽרוּ׃vacharuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they chose

Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Proverbs 3:31

• תִּ֝בְחַ֗רtivcharverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you choose

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

Proverbs 8:10

• נִבְחָֽר׃nivcharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

Proverbs 8:19

• נִבְחָֽר׃nivcharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver, but the heart of the wicked has little worth.

Proverbs 10:20

• נִ֭בְחָרnivchorverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

How much better to acquire wisdom than gold! To gain understanding is more desirable than silver.

Proverbs 16:16

• נִבְחָ֥רnivcharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.

Proverbs 21:3

• נִבְחָ֖רnivcharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

Proverbs 22:1

• נִבְחָ֣רnivcharverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.

Song of Solomon 5:15

• בָּח֖וּרbachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.

Isaiah 1:29

• בְּחַרְתֶּֽם׃bechartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have chosen

By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

Isaiah 7:15

• וּבָח֥וֹרuvachorconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and to choose

For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

Isaiah 7:16

• וּבָחֹ֣רuvachorconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and to choose

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:1

• וּבָחַ֥רuvacharHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will choose

To one bereft of an offering who chooses wood that will not rot, who seeks a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple?

Isaiah 40:20

• יִבְחָ֑רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chooses

“But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

Isaiah 41:8

• בְּחַרְתִּ֑יךָbechartikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have chosen you

I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.

Isaiah 41:9

• בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָbechartikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have chosen you

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

Isaiah 41:24

• יִבְחַ֥רyivcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chooses

“You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.

Isaiah 43:10

• בָּחָ֑רְתִּיbacharetiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

But now listen, O Jacob My servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:1

• בָּחַ֥רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

This is the word of the LORD, your Maker, who formed you from the womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Isaiah 44:2

• בָּחַ֥רְתִּיbachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

See, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Isaiah 48:10

• בְּחַרְתִּ֖יךָbechartikhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have chosen you

Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will bow down, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.”

Isaiah 49:7

• וַיִּבְחָרֶֽךָּ׃vaiyivcharekaHc/Vqw3ms/Sp2mstagged: and he has chosen you

For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—

Isaiah 56:4

• וּבָֽחֲר֖וּuvacharuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they choose

Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Isaiah 58:5

• אֶבְחָרֵ֔הוּʾevcharehuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I choose it

Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Isaiah 58:6

• אֶבְחָרֵהוּ֒ʾevcharehuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I choose it

I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

Isaiah 65:12

• בְּחַרְתֶּֽם׃ פbechartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you chose

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

Isaiah 66:3

• בָּֽחֲרוּ֙bacharuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have chosen

So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

Isaiah 66:4

• אֶבְחַ֣רʾevcharverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will choose
• בָּחָֽרוּ׃ סbacharuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they chose

And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

Jeremiah 8:3

• וְנִבְחַ֥רvenivcharHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will be chosen

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Jeremiah 33:24

• בָּחַ֧רbacharverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he chose

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

Jeremiah 49:19

• בָח֖וּרvachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”

Jeremiah 50:44

• בָח֖וּרvachurverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: chosen

and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’

Ezekiel 20:5

• בָּחֳרִ֣יbochoriverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: chose I

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will take you, My servant, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, declares the LORD, and I will make you like My signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the LORD of Hosts.”

Haggai 2:23

• בָחַ֔רְתִּיvachartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have chosen

Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”

Zechariah 1:17

• וּבָחַ֥רuvacharHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will choose

And the LORD will take possession of Judah as His portion in the Holy Land, and He will once again choose Jerusalem.

Zechariah 2:12

• וּבָחַ֥רuvacharHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will choose

And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”

Zechariah 3:2

• הַבֹּחֵ֖רhabocherthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: who has chosen